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Our House Is A Very, Very Costly House
Today's podcast considers the weak job numbers and the persistence both of inflation and higher interest rates and asks whether Joe Biden is making a…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Disaster Artists
Today's podcast asks what political benefits or liabilities a politician can accrue from their behavior in the wake of a natural disaster, with speci…
2 years, 4 months ago
Fallout From the Pull-Out
James Kirchick joins today's podcast to discuss the overdue outrage about our botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and a new book that's surprisingly …
2 years, 4 months ago
A Crisis Is Coming
The podcast today worries over the fact that the judge in the January 6 case set Donald Trump's trial date for the day before Super Tuesday next year…
2 years, 4 months ago
Debating the Debate
Today Eli Lake joins the gang to consider what some of us got wrong about last week's Republican primary debate. According to polls, Ron DeSantis did…
2 years, 4 months ago
The War on Drugs, the Death of Local Politics
On the last day of listener-questions week, we take up the war on drugs. Was it doomed? Have we surrendered? What are the consequences? Then we respo…
2 years, 4 months ago
Haley Dazzles, Vivek Annoys Effectively
We interrupt this week's listener-questions podcasts with our analysis of last night's Republican debate. The talk centers on Vivek Ramaswamy, and as…
2 years, 4 months ago
AI, Yai Yai
On today's listener-questions podcast, we first discuss efforts on the right over the past 20 years to address issues of concern to working-class Ame…
2 years, 4 months ago
How to Read
Today's listener-question podcast finds us discussing how the COMMENTARY crew gathers the information we gather during the day and how and when we re…
2 years, 4 months ago
How to Maintain Friendships Across the Political Divide
Today's podcast marks the first in a week devoted to listener questions. First up: How do we manage to stay friends with people we disagree with so s…
2 years, 4 months ago